Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1884 — The Luscious Peanut. [ARTICLE]

The Luscious Peanut.

A Southern paper says the Virginians are beginning to turn the peanut into flour, and says it makes a palatable “biscuit." In Georgia there is a custom, now growing old, of grinding or pounding the shelled peanut, and turning them into pastry, which has a resemblance, both in looks and taste, to that made of cocoanut, but the peanut pastry is more oily and richer, and, we think, healthier and better every way. If, as Bome’people believe, Africa sent a curse to America in slavery, she certainly conferred upon her a blessing in the universally popular peanut, which grows so well throughout the Southern regions that we shall soon be able to cut of the now large importation altogether.